Commentary – Page 9
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Business
Chinese police seize £222m of fake drugs
1300 people are arrested in a nationwide crackdown on counterfeit medicines
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Business
AstraZeneca shells out $4.1bn for diabetes business
Bristol-Myers Squibb exits the diabetes field with plans to become a specialised biopharmaceutical company
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Business
Honeywell invests $300m in green refrigerant
New manufacturing plant will produce a gas for car air conditioners that has a much lower global warming potential
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Business
Court overturns approval to grow GM potato in Europe
Europe’s second highest court rules that European commission did not follow its own rules when giving Amflora the green light
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News
Little new for science in autumn statement
UK government announces money for quantum technology centres and a promise of more strategic planning for science
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News
New doctoral training centres get go ahead
More than 70 centres will train 3500 postgraduate students
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Opinion
A century of isotopes
Once appalled by the military use of his discoveries, Frederick Soddy would pleased by his legacy today, says Mark Peplow
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News
Two-time chemistry Nobelist Fred Sanger dies
Protein and DNA sequencing pioneer passes away at age 95
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Business
Air Products looks for alternative helium sources
Concerns over supplies lead to plan to extract the gas from carbon dioxide sinks
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Business
GSK forms Brazilian sustainable chemistry venture
Agreement with research organisation will launch centre for greener, cleaner drug production
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Opinion
The judgement of your peers
A bit of hindsight goes a long way in measuring scientific quality, says Mark Peplow
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Research
Flame retardants levels in pregnant women fall following ban
Small study finds two-thirds drop in blood concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers
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Opinion
Misconduct: on the blog and in the open
When formal investigations of research misconduct are opaque and sluggish, it is inevitable that chemists will take to the blogs to debate suspicious papers, says Mark Peplow
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Opinion
Synthetic biology is bursting with life
Synthetic biology is shifting into high gear. To truly thrive, it needs chemists, says Mark Peplow
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News
With great blogging power… comes great responsibility
Revelations of suspected scientific malpractice have raised questions of just what role the online chemistry community should play in rooting out bad behaviour
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Business
Lundbeck appeals European antitrust fine
Danish pharmaceutical claims €93.8 million pay-for-delay penalty was the result of ‘serious legal and factual errors’
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Business
Syngenta takes legal action over pesticide ban
Company claims that the European commission’s two-year moratorium on neonicotinoids to protect bees was wrong
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News
Chinese scientist sentenced over research theft
Researcher working at US university given time served for charges relating to disappearance of vials of promising drug candidate
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News
Call to arms on data integrity
Journal editor tells chemists to get tough on bad practices such as scrubbing spectra of embarrassing impurities